http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670148/a-green-desk-powered-by-the-person-sitting-at-it#1

The article I have chosen is “A Green Desk Powered By The Person Sitting At It”. Eddi Tornberg is the inventor of this desk that uses the potted plants, heat, and motion from your body to create energy to power the desk but it still has a long ways to go. The prototype only creates enough energy to power a small laptop for a short amount of time.

The carpet has a special element in it that creates energy when you walk or roll on it. The chair has a special film that captures energy from the metal heating up while you are sitting at the desk. The plants in the area around the desk somehow serve as a microbial fuel cell.

As of right now all the elements that make up the desk are very simple design and appear to not be very practicable for the common user. There are cords running from the chair, flowerpot, and rug to the desk. These cords transport the energy created, to the desk, which are accumulated and converted into usable energy. The desk has three outlets to plug into your devices.

Mr. Tornberg hopes that one day he will get his prototype to have it mass marketed and make it part of our day to day living standard. He hopes that a major furniture building company will pick up on what he is doing and start mass producing furniture that can help our electrical needs in the future.

My personal opinion is that green energy is coming. As our population grows, more of our day to day items need energy to run; we will have to produce more energy. The government agency ‘(EPA)’ have hindered any new power plants of any kind from being built and have been putting new regulation on the ones already built. That is why I say, “green energy is coming”.

Mr. Tornberg and others like him who are trying to create renewable energy